From September 21-25 Machina Kitchen & Art Bar will be donating all the profits made on potstickers to fund Arts Alive!’s new mini-grants program - a way to give artists an extra boost to get their project off the ground.
As many of us were isolated during the pandemic, especially in its early days, artist/illustrator/teacher Robert Seaman, 88, was especially so. During a lockdown period at the assisted living facility he calls home, he desperately needed a creative outlet and turned to his life-long passion–drawing—to help buoy him in dark times. He began creating a doodle a day. These Daily Doodles turned his activity into a way to give back.
We’re proud to share the story of Robert Seaman, in his own words.
August 7th at 6pm Arts Alive!’s director Jessica Gelter is taking the stage at the Showroom!
MC2 Charter School’s Let It Slide event is a wild night of improv storytelling and speechmaking combined with meme-inspired powerpoint presentations - and it's like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Plus it includes civic participation - audience members get to vote for their favorite story or storyteller. Back from its pandemic hiatus, this Let It Slide event is sharing the profits and love with several area nonprofits including - Hundred Nights, Keene Housing Kids Collaborative, MCVP, Culinary Journeys, MC2 Charter School, and Arts Alive!
“All of these nonprofits are awesome and everyone should come out to support this fun and interactive event - and see some of your community leaders try to not fail on stage.,” says Executive Director Jessica Gelter.
Any money raised by Arts Alive! event will be put into our mini grants for artists fund. We’ll be launching these mini grants this fall to help give artists a little boost towards making their creative dreams come true.
Get your tickets: https://thecolonial.org/event/let-it-slide/
Arts Alive! is offering $50-$250 mini-grants to artists and creative businesses in the Monadnock region. Applications are open from September 1-October 15, 2021. Grants will be awarded to projects that further either the artist or creative business - expanding their professional abilities or increasing how many people they can reach with arts experiences.
Radically Rural seeks submissions of Creative Placemaking projects in rural communities across the US and its territories. All projects will be posted to the virtual board of Radically Rural creative placemaking and all project submitters will receive discount tickets to Radically Rural. 10 selected projects will be invited to share their story as a 7 minute presentation during Session 3 of the Arts Track of the 2021 Radically Rural national summit. Presentations can be made from the summit location in Keene, New Hampshire, or virtually from a presenter’s chosen location. Presenters will be given FREE tickets to Radically Rural. The 2021 Summit is September 22-23, 2021.
Arts Alive! to Receive Funding and Assistance from National Endowment for the Arts
In its ongoing support of rural communities, the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Housing Assistance Council, announces the 2021 communities taking part in its national initiative, the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD). Keene is one of four communities selected for a multi-day design workshop to address small scale and tangible design and building projects in the downtown “Arts Corridor” concept. This project is being led by Arts Alive! in partnership with many individual artists and organizations.
We are close to making our year long dream of a new community pottery center for our region a reality. In the meantime, the Sharing Arts group has been busy. They now have a temporary kiln location set up in Dublin, ready for regular firings. They've had an intern help develop the studio procedures to pave the way to the studio opening, and they've developed some new classes to get your hands dirty while you wait.
